Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1887-06-29

~ S, she shall nave good ume,
and amuse herself all she wants. She
shall ting-a ling-ling and boom-boom-
boomr suiting the action to the word
until the startled mother grasped her
fathers arm. "And she shall la-la-la,
and skip here. and skip there, and go
in any part of this key board, and
jump on any key she wants to, and be
SO happyr Kittie stopped suddenly,
catching sight of her mothers dress.
"Oh, il is you, Kittie," said her
father, reassuringly, land not Dutch
ban dr.
Kitty jumped down and ran toward
him.
"Then you aren't ngry, father.
see the laugh-wrinkles. Oh, father, she
did enjoy it so muchr'
"Who. KitheP'
Kittie held up the gaudy little hand,
red from its violent exercise,
kiss her, father. She loves you"
And as the little hand patted and
smoothed his check he knew that it did
love him.
Tell me what you were doing,
Kittie. Furnishing the poor pianoP"
"The piano likes it. 1t is so lonely
most of the time, and she never has any
fun; she is never allowed TO do any of
the things that sister does; sister can
play and skip and toss her fingers, and
this poor dear has to help to show her
off, Father, how would you like to be
kept doing this-tum, tum, tum-tum,
tumP Gmitating an accompaniment,
''while another man was dancing up
and down, and all the people saying:
How beautiful! How perfectly love-
lyr"
Kittie's father laughed loud and
long at her comical mimicry.
There, father! felt sure you would
sympathize with her."
After that Kitty was happy, and she
ran out of the room, releasing the i'm
prisoned right hand from the apron
string. When she had gone her father
said:
"Never mind, wife. Indulge her
fancy; there's some good in it."
"You will spoil that child, Edwin.
But if you will get her to take off those
tawdry rings, won't mind the table
cloths"
After time even these were not so
bad. Kittie soon learned to cut her
meat as skillfully with one hand as the
other. One day her mother received a
letter from one of the maids which
read:
DEAR MoTHER-I am visiting in Garretstown,
and as the road is steep, and part OF it very
dusty, can not come down and see you. So /
send you kiss. Please accept 1t with my
love. Yuor loving child, KIrrIE.
p. S.-,She wrote this. Sister has gone visit
ing Aunt Jackstones in Pocket Lane Aunt
Jackstones has a new little girl II is red
speckled one, and very butiful.
Kittie's mother smiled, took her kiss,
and put the letter away to show Kit
ties father.
She was also pleased to hear the little
music teacher, who talked staccato, say
that Kittie's facility in lingering was
wonderful. Her left hand particularly
was marvel of nexibilty. Really, she
thought it would soon make no differ
ence which hand she played with. In
fact, it was quite unusual; very extra
ordinary.
Kittie's playmates soon fou:d that
at croquet or tennis she was pretty
sure to be on the winning side. When
her right hand was tired she played
with the left.
One unfortunate day, however, Kittie
tripped on II hidden croquet hoop, and
down she came, breaking her right
arm, so that for some days there was
no playing at all. 1t was only after
many charges to be very careful that
she was allowed to go to the play
ground with her arm laid away i'm a
plaster-of-Paris cradle and swung in a
sling, which greatly interested the
children. At first Kttie watched them
playing very contentedly, but after n
time her interest was much
more lively. When Jack Dreamer
made II good catch she danced up and
down with delight, and finally, II flying
tennis ball seeking her out, she struck
out her hand and caught it neatly.
After that, the first thing ever Kittie
knew she was bounding about and in
the thick of the game.
When Jack Creamer went home that
night, with rosy face, over which rills
of perspiration had left their mark,
and told how their side had beat, and
it was all because of Kittie and of him
self, Jack Creamcr, and that Kittie
played with her left arm, for her right
arm was in sling, but he'd rather
have her on his side ut tennis than any
two armed boy, Jacks father said that
somebody had told him that little Kit
tie Verify was ambidexter
Jack was very much impressed with
this long word, and as soon as he had
eaten his supper he ran to tell the boys
that he knew how it was that Kittie
could play so wcll-that his father said
Kittie was ambidexter, and his father
knew.
There was difference of opinion
among the boys as to the meaning of
ambidexter, or just how it worked.
One of the boys thought il was some
sort of fairy gift Kittie had received in
her cradle. But rs this boy was known
to be still reading fairy stories, nobody
listened to him. The general impress
sion, after some discussion, was that it
was in some way connected with the
broken arm-nothing catching, you
know, but feature of the malady, and
it was agreed it had better not be spok-
en- about.
This was very well, and under the
circumstances very polite, but Eugenius
Morcton, the boy who read fairy tales,
was not satisfied, so the next time he
saw Kittic he asked:
kitty, did you ever see fairyp An
old woman fairy, with a big hat and a
hooked nose, and crooked stick in her
handp"
mo-" said Kittle, thoughtfully; II